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EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a man of exceptional intellect and an internationally … esteemed statesman who contributed…
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… which had started on 11 October 1899, there were attempts to reach peace. On 15 May 1902, thirty delegates from each … Boer representatives converged at…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… Sir John Frederick William Herschel, died. Herschel began to take a serious interest in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's … discoverer of the planet…
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook … miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… African government. The region became the second Bantustan to gain ‘independence’ following the Transkei, a year earlier. The region’s President, Lucas…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… 1870 in Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland as the second son of a crofter. He received a Master of Arts in Classics from Balliol College in Oxford … the…
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… Vorster, Minister of Justice announced extensive measures to "ensure the safety of the state to the absolute maximum" … further outbreaks of unrest, the…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… forum met for the first time since December 1993 to discuss the African National Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had proposed inclusion of a…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from our office in downtown Johannesburg to Struik’s…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… Day, and was celebrated in kwazulu/Natal. It was changed to National Heritage Day in 2004 when a compromise was reached between the new government and the ……
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… this day in history, and international conference was held to implement legislation to protect the African elephant and rhinoceros. This is because due to…
EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
… On 2 August 1928, Italy signed a twenty-year treaty of friendship with Abyssinia (now known … Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration, Italy agreed to upholding…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Black Consciousness advocated by Steven Biko. It was open to Blacks, Coloureds and Indians, but closed to Whites. AZAPO … about the Black Consciousness…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… exercise known as 'Operation Great Storm'. Its aim was to reclaim land from White people and return it to … the slogan 'Year of the People's Offensive'. It …
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… At a meeting held in Ulundi, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader … " and " unimplementable " . Referring specifically to the proposed ban on carrying…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… On 10 January 1988, Mr Obed Amon Mwanza, a Zimbabwean, was killed and six African National Congress … members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza was…
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… had repeatedly censored the newspaper, Fairbairn appealed to the British government and gained the right to publish … freedom, that they acknowledged their…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… was completed. The construction of the Beira Railway to Umtali was completed in February 1989, just before the … first regular freight service began. After…
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… the Birkenhead, under Captain Robert Salmond, stranded on a reef opposite Danger Point, the southern point of Walker … 8th Frontier War . It is believed that…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… Numerous attempts were made by the local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity … airport. The government’s plan was to…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane … government conceded another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer…
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
… was established by King Leopold II of Belgium. Congo was a large region in central Africa that had been able to resist European penetration. It occupies most…
Foreword
… This report reproduces the papers presented at a Symposium held to mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. They sparked…
EventFirst day of office for Mboweni as Governor the SA Reserve Bank
… governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to replace Dr Chris Stals. Mboweni, the first Black person to head this highly reputed institution, was…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled his … at the Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… Festival and his remaining October shows, taking time out to deal with serious health issues, fans were forced to … Harry James’s trumpet, in the 1950 movie …
KuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… East London, (Afrikaans-'Oos-Londen'), is a Port City is situated in the Eastern Cape Province of … of the Buffalo River along the Indian Ocean . The need…
PlaceFree State Province
… is flat with rolling grasslands and crops fields, rising to lovely sandstone Mountains in the Northeast. It was originally a Boer State and then (from 1910)…
PlaceMkhambathi Nature Reserve
… . (This name can differ in spelling slightly, accordingy to local dialect.) With newly built Bridges of extraordinary complexity! Visitors have a range of…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier, calmer and … or during the eight years in which she…